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Govt hasn’t invited international organizations and Council of Europe to monitor elections

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The Montenegrin government hasn’t invited the international organizations OSCE/ODIHR and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to monitor the parliamentary elections scheduled for 11 June.

According to the unofficial information of Pobjeda daily, neither the Parliament nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited the international observes even though it’s a practice to do it 60 days before the election day.

Some say the main reason for it is that the outgoing prime minister, Dritan Abazovic, and his team hope that elections are going to be postponed, i.e. that the new president of Montenegro, Jakov Milatovic, once he takes over, is going to issue the decree on shortening the mandate of the Parliament, previously issued by the current president Milo Djukanovic.

The PSSE has confirmed for Pobjeda that they weren’t invited for monitoring the elections. Asked whether there’s an official deadline for the invitation, the PSSE says there isn’t, but that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe needs time to prepare for such an activity.

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